Contributor's Biographies and Contact Information

James Allan

James Allan, 1959, Canada. Studied at the Ontario College of Art(experimental film and painting). Member of interaccess.org and teleportacia.org. Lives in Toronto. You can find more work at his website.

tom bell

tom bell is a psychologist in private practice near Nashville, TN, USA. He has also been a poet most of his life and has been writing web poetry and web art for several years. More examples of his online work.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in East Texas with her husband, David. Her poems have appeared in Acornwhistle, Borderlands, Passager, Prairie Dog, Maverick and The Texas Observer and on line at Riding the Meridian, The Astrophysicists Tango Partner, Unlikely Stories, Isibongo, Conspire, Tintern Abbey, Zuzu's Petals & 2River View. She has won The Lipscomb Award for Excellence in Poetry, A Passager Poetry Contest Award and has been three times nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her book Reading Berryman to the Dog, is forthcoming from Jacaranda Press, San Jose, CA. You can find more of her work online at 2River.

geniwate

geniwate has been involved in web art for a couple of years. Her first piece was rice, which won the 1999 trAce/Alt-x International Hypertext Competition. Her current project is Nepabunna, SA, which involves creating 3D animations of remote sensing images. You can see both projects at Idas Poetics.

Joe Keenan

Joe Keenan lives and writes in Buffalo, NY, USA. His chance-modulated and kinetic visual poems can be found at www.buffnet.net/~joecow.

Christine Kennedy

Christine Kennedy was born in London in 1956. She studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, and Combined Studies at Leicester University reading History of Art, English, Archaeology and Classical Studies. She has been exhibiting regularly since 1994, and her varied ouput includes text works, installations and artists books. She is a contributor to the current Riding the Meridian Internet literary magazine, Spring 2000 issue on Women and Technology. You can find more of her work at her homepage.

David Knoebel

David Knoebel was born in Pennsylvania USA in 1949 and began to draw cartoons as soon as he could push a crayon. He added words, beginning with "yes" and "no", as he learned them. He spent the summers of his childhood working at an amusement park where he discovered his love for movement, space, and light. After graduation from Yale, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He moved to New York City in 1973 and had his first one man show there in 1976. Since then, his work has been seen in galleries throughout the US and in Europe.

Knoebel's web page, "Click Poetry" appeared in 1996. His work has been featured on Compuserve, About.com, Light & Dust, Zn, trAce, Cauldron & Net, Webartery, Web3D/VRML 2000, the International Computer Graphics Festival, and The Poets' Place.

Patrick Lichty

Gregory Little

Gregory Little is an electronic media artist working with philosophical and theoretical issues related to the technologies of immersive virtual reality, netart, and avatars; specifically with respect to issues of identity, embodiment, and human sentience. He has presented and exhibited his work in numerous international venues, including Ars Electronica, Invencao, Consciousness Reframed, Webs of Discourse, CADE, as well as museums, galleries, and alternative spaces. His essay, łA Manifesto for Avatars˛ was published in Intertexts in 1998. At present he is a visiting researcher at the Virtual Reality Centre at the University of Teesside, and at the CAVE Lab, New Media Center, The University of Michigan. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Art/New Media at Bowling Green State University, and an Assistant Professor of Art at Kent State University. He has an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, and a BFA in Painting from Indiana University. Gregory Little has been working with interactive electronic media since 1990. You can find more of his work online at Kent State.

M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink)

M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA) writes electronic hypermedia fiction. Her full-length novel, Califia (Eastgate Systems 2000), is available on CD-ROM. Her web short stories and poetry have appeared in Iowa Review Web, Riding the Meridian, Cauldron and Net, Salt Hill, New River, Enterzone, and Aileron. Her work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Transcriptions Series at UC Santa Barbara, at the Digital Arts Center at UCLA, and on-line at trAce (Nottingham University, UK), Blast 5 (Alt X), and Room Without Walls.

She has curated a collection of women writing on the web with Carolyn Guertin, *The Progressive Dinner Party* (Riding the Meridian, Spring 2000) and will curate a collection of men working in web-specific literature this fall entitled *Jumpin' at the Diner* for Meridian with Jennifer Ley. M.D. Coverley lives in Newport Beach, CA and teaches writing at Irvine Valley College. You can see more fiction on the web at her web site.

Charles Atlas Sheppard

Charles Atlas Sheppard is a Plains Cree Indian from Saskatchewan Canada. He is a freelance journalist/photographer/artist and is the editor of The Nepenthe Journal. He is currently creating a large multimedia website devoted to The Trickster with myths from around the world.

Barry Smylie

Smylie became a professional artist in 1965 and has been creating internet content for 3 years. His web site is at http://barrysmylie.com.

He doesn't like writing or even talking about himself (he's a bore). Who are you and what have you been doing since you were born?

Alan Sondheim

Alan Sondheim is currently working on Net theory and with Foofwa d'Immobilite and Azure Carter on avant-garde dance and video projects. His work can be found here.

David Sutherland

Work of David's has appeared in The American Literary Review, The Hollins Critic, The Northern Michigan Journal, The Reader (Oxford University), The Cortland Review and The Midwest Quarterly. Recent awards include a Pushcart Nomination, with a second collection of poems recently published by Archer Books this July. Finally, David serves as managing editor for an Internet publication called "Recursive Angel".

"Steel Umbrellas" is available through Archer.

Susan Terris

Susan Terris' book CURVED SPACE was published by the La Jolla Poets Press in January, 1998. In 1999, she had two new poetry books published: EYE OF THE HOLOCAUST (Arctos Press) and ANGELS OF BATAAN (Pudding House Publications). Other recent books are: Killing In The Comfort Zone (Pudding House Publications) and Nell's Quilt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In 1998-00, Ms. Terris had 5 poems nominated for Pushcart Prizes, won first place in 5 poetry competitions, and was a 2nd place winner or finalist in 16 other national competitions. Ms. Terris has had poetry published (partial listing) in many magazines and journals including The Antioch Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, Southern California Anthology, Nimrod, and The Southern Poetry Review.

On-line she has had work (partial listing) in Recursive Angel, Conspire, Web De Sol, Perihelion, Poetry Daily, New Works Review, The Blue Penny Quarterly, Blue Moon Review, In Vivo, Switched-on Gutenberg, Kudzu, Highbeams, Thunder Sandwich, Ariga:Visions, Zero City, Wise Women'sWeb, & Zuzu's Petals.

You may read more of her poetry at her website.

Ted Warnell - Poem by Nari

Poem by Nari is Ted Warnell and friends:
  <PRE>
  The works of Poem by Nari are results of a creative collaboration;
  artists, writers, computer programmers, and Netizens of the world.

  Digital code and data, program logic, information from cyberspace,
  all things digital, are source materials for creative exploration.

  Your participation is welcomed. You can send your ideas and logic,
  cyberstream data and debris via email to: PbNari 
  </PRE>
in any crowd of normal people, Poem by Nari is the ab one
in any group of like minded artists, Poem by Nari is the un one
Poem by Nari is a crowd of one,
a forest of a single blade of grass in a sea of concrete,
the out one
  <PRE>
  6098 Released Atomic Coordinate Entries

    Molecule Type
      5397 proteins, peptides, and viruses
       241 protein/nucleic acid complexes
       447 nucleic acids
        12 carbohydrates

    Experimental Technique
       161 theoretical modeling
       924 NMR
      5013 diffraction and other

  Total size of the atomic coordinate entry
  database is 2544 Mbytes uncompressed.
  </PRE>
Poem by Nari is a binary poem.


Joel Weishaus

Joel Weishaus was born in Brooklyn. In his late teens he was a Madison Avenue advertising executive. Soon after his 21st birthday, he quit his job and flew to Los Angeles, where he spent three months in a heat wave deciding how to proceed with his life. He returned to New York dedicating himself to whatever creativity would being. After a stint in the military, he worked at many different jobs--always writing and/or and sculpting--, did year-long hermitage in the mountains of N. California, lived in Zen Centers, and moved to New Mexico, in 1977, where he first was an Adjunct Curator (Video Art) at The University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum, then, for seven years, a Writer-In-Residence at the university's Center for Southwest Research. In June 2000, Weishaus left New Mexico for Portland, Oregon.

Please see links under Joel Weishaus at yahoo.com, and other search engines (some of which will be temporarly broken), until he has had the chance to establish another home.


Jennifer Ley

Founder of the internet literary magazine Riding the Meridian and the award winning hypertext poetry site The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, Jennifer Ley develops her newest work in the field of hypertext and hypermedia. Examples can be found on the web in the April Feature and the Valentine Files at the Electronic Poetry Center, in the web journals Cauldron and Net, frAme4, The Animist, Snakeskin, and Conspire, and in the trAce anthology, My Millennium. Her web works have been exhibited at Digital Arts and Culture '99, at the Wednesdays at 4 readings series at SUNY-Buffalo, the SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery, and at digital conferences planned this year in South Africa and Eastern Europe.

A 1998 Pushcart nominee for her text poetry, Ley has had earlier work anthologized on the Internet at Poetry Cafe and published in a variety of print publications. Her web work "The Birth of Detachment" has just been 'translated' into a limited edition chapbook by PaperBrain Press. She is a founding member of the Internet Literary Editor's Fellowship -- ILEF -- and a member of the Literary Advisory Committee for the Electronic Literature Organization. More of her web work is viewable from her online resume.






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Contributors:

Joe Keenan
geniwate
Charles Atlas Sheppard
Barry Smylie
Tom Bell
David Knoebel
Joel Weishaus
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Ted Warnell/Poem by Nari
David Hunter Sutherland
M.D. Coverley
Patrick Lichty
Susan Terris
Alan Sondheim
James Allan
Gregory Little
Christine Kennedy


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